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Smoking ban approved for Churchill Square

It's now official. You can't smoke in Churchill Square, period. Council passed third reading of the bylaw, just barely in a 7-6 vote.
Coun. Ben Henderson voted against the tougher new rules, thinking there will be all kinds of unintended consequences during 'down' times when there's only a handful of people in the square.
"I think probably they're doing less harm by sitting on the steps in the square far way from anybody than they are where we're pushing them to, which is on the sidewalk and...